A Drizzle of Honey
David Gitlitz’s new book with co-author and wife, Linda Kay Davidson is A Drizzle of Honey: the Lives and Recipes of Spain’s Secret Jews. Suggested price is $29.95, discounted to $26.95. Published by St. Martin’s Press. When he was at the Summer 1997 Denver conference of the Society for Crypto Judaic Studies, Gitlitz said he [...]
Card Playing to Hide Jewish Identity
In his presentation to the 1999 SCJS Conference in Los Angeles, Seth Ward told of a woman from Northern New Mexico whom he had interviewed. She was describing the Crypto Jewish practices of her family and told about playing cards every September with her Grandmother. Playing cards was an annual ritual of the family that [...]
The Poetry of Leonor De Carvajal and The Crypto-Jewish Tradition In New Spain
This is based on two articles. The prime source was: “La poesía de Leonor de Carvajal y la tradición de los cryptojudíos en Nueva Esapaña” by Michelle M. Hamilton (University of California, Berkeley) which appeared in Sefarad, Año 60, Fasc. 1, Madrid 2000. Additional information was obtained from an article by Moshé Shaul in Aki [...]
Ferrara: Spiritual Haven for Conversos in the Early Renaissance
During the sixteenth century reigns of Alfonso and Ercole of the House of Este, the Duchy of Ferrara became known as a spiritual haven and a safe place for Sephardic Jews and conversos. Those who had been forcibly converted to Catholicism could return to the faith of their ancestors, and all could practice Judaism again [...]
Ferrara: Spiritual Haven for Conversos in the Early Renaissance
During the sixteenth century reigns of Alfonso and Ercole of the House of Este, the Duchy of Ferrara became known as a spiritual haven and a safe place for Sephardic Jews and conversos. Those who had been forcibly converted to Catholicism could return to the faith of their ancestors, and all could practice Judaism again [...]
Dr. Hector Nuñes, Portuguese Physician, Merchant and Crypto Jew in Elizabethan England 1547-1591
Dr. Hector Nuñes, lying in the throes of approaching death in September of 1591, commended “ unto God and to his protection his honor Lord Burghley and all his noble familie.” In the same breath, he also sought Burghley’s aid “to protect and assist my poore wife in all needful and reasonable causes.” These comments [...]
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